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10 Strategies to Strengthen Instruction and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

These consisted of sound classroom management, listing the learning objectives, and developing a lesson plan. I still can’t believe how much time and focus there was on how to manage a classroom effectively. When I think back to my training to become a teacher, there were some reasonably consistent norms.

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8 Strategies Your Teaching More Enjoyable This Year

TeachThought

It depends on factors, including building and climate, mindset, relationships with parents, student engagement, and classroom management, the function of various standards in your teaching and curriculum, the quality of the PLCs—if they are used in your building—and so on. Of course, this varies greatly from teacher to teacher.

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8 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2024

Cult of Pedagogy

MagicSchool offers more than 50 different AI-assisted tools to help speed up so many of the teaching tasks that take so much time: lesson planning, assessment building, feedback, communication with parents, even an IEP generator. The Tools 1. MagicSchool magicschool.ai Diffit web.diffit.me Need a text on a particular topic?

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How Mentorship Has Kept Me in the Classroom

ED Surge

Some of these bonds have grown into deep friendships, and others have turned into formal or informal mentorships. I entered the classroom through an alternative certification program , which meant I hadn’t received the same level of preparation as teachers who came through traditional teacher training routes.

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What should new teachers know before they set foot in a classroom?

The Hechinger Report

They listed among their younger colleagues’ strengths: lesson planning, the ability to adjust their teaching to the needs of students, and preparedness to address the academic needs of struggling students. We do classroom management really differently than how it’s carried out in the schools,” Pensavalle said.

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How Purposeful Play Opens the Door to Lifelong Learning

ED Surge

LEGO Education designs standards-aligned sets for K-8 students and offers plenty of free support for teachers, including more than 400 online lesson plans —ranging in focus from computer science and English Language Arts (ELA) to robotics and coding— self-guided professional development and an online community where teachers share tips and ideas.

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The Role of the Substitute Teacher Needs an Overhaul

ED Surge

In a deal struck between the New York City Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers, a new position — paraprofessional classroom manager (PCM) — was created as a temporary solution to allow paraprofessionals (paras) like me to sub for classroom teachers. These are luxuries that are not afforded to most subs.